Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Highway project in Vendée: Royal denounces “attacks … – Le Parisien

Ségolène Royal did not appreciate the comparison with Eleanor of Aquitaine. On Tuesday, the Minister of Ecology denounced “misogynistic and brutal attacks” from elected protesting against his decision to block a highway project in the west. She took the opportunity to reaffirm his choice, believing that it is “not realistic to 900 million euros in 60 km.”

“It’s an outdated way to do politics, we can have different opinions, discuss, observe, but attacks both misogynistic and brutal, really, do not move the files,” responded Ségolène Royal on Europe 1. “continue to discuss, it is not worth a handful of elected threats, shouts, insults. What’s the point? “She has said.

Parliamentarians and elected left and right Vendée, Charente-Maritime and Pays-de-la-Loire wrote to Prime Minister Manuel Valls to demand that the state does not abandon the project ‘A831 motorway. Judging “unacceptable” decision “sudden” and “improvised”, they feel that this highway is “absolutely essential to the vitality of our hardest hit by the crisis territories” and “for the safety of motorists in an area choked by heavy traffic . “

Accused to take for” Eleanor of Aquitaine “

But the most scathing attack came from the President of the General Council of Vendée Bruno Retailleau (UMP): “She thinks she’s the reincarnation of Eleanor Of Aquitaine, is the most completely arbitrary, the Marais Poitevin is not the private garden of Madame Royal (…) that this it offers us today, it is a kind of return to the Middle Ages with the decisions of the Duchess Ségolène. Well we are not beggars and we will not let be! “Has he said.

Commenting on the reasons for his veto, the Minister held that s’ was “making decisions sense.” “It is not realistic to 900 million euros in 60 km (…) We will not repeat Notre-Dame-des-Landes in the Marais Poitevin! Notre-Dame-des-Landes too, it was decided on studies that dated from there over 10 years, and now we start again? “Has she asked, referring to airport project in this town of Loire-Atlantique. Asked about the position of Manuel Valls, the minister assured that he was on the same wavelength. “He says just that: talk calmly putting things flat”

This motorway project between Fontenay-le-Compte in Vendée Rochefort in Charente-Maritime in 2011 had received the green light. former Prime Minister François Fillon. It must pass through the Marais Poitevin who found the label in 2014 Regional Park, lost in 1996.